Redescription of the marine scuticociliate Glauconema trihymene Thompson, 1966 (Protozoa: Ciliophora): Life cycle and stomatogenesis

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1296, 2006, Pages 1-17

  Ma, Hongwei ^a   Song, Weibo ^a   Warren, Alan ^b   Roberts, David ^b   Gong, Jun ^a   Al Rasheid, Khaled A S ^c  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Classification; Glauconema tortum; Morphogenesis; New combination; Polymorphic life cycle; Tomitogenesis

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; GLAUCONEMA; GLAUCONEMA TRIHYMENE; PARAURONEMATIDAE; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33748161861     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1296.1.1     Document Type: Article

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